Open learning nets: 5-year future diary of 9 year olds: explore-do-connect-learn. TO BE?

4.1 games to converse, question and with

I'm a great believer in the games a parent and child can play, particularly mental ones that can be played whenever you are waiting in a queue, pencil and paper games (most of which could easily be made into a virtual web - perhaps I only need to invent one popular one of those to buy back more parenjting time from other jobs)

parent and kid can interview each other about the games we already play, what games to invent next; and parent to parent loops could exchnage experiences

by nine, I certainly recommend playing mental hangman (the unfortunate english name for the game where one person thinks of a word, and the other guesses letters in the word being told which guessed do or do not exist in the word). In the original game, you get about 10 lives (wrong guesses). You win if you get the word before your 10 lives run out). We don't bother with that in the mental game. Its a good game for building up vocabulary, spelling and mental visualising. It's also a game that puts you in the flow with your child to ask what other learning games could we play or invent.

For example my daughter likes puzzles and jokey conundra (I expect for the good reason that these are socially u on the playground at 9), but I would also like to start elevating these from the trivia to the deeper. I am wondering right now if I could cull shakespeare for 10 of his most all purpose quotes. What's the most learning-full one on love that Juliet utters? What's the most relevant one on how fools manage to resolve political conflicts by having the licence to openly question powerful people in ways nobody else has?The parent needs to know a few most puzzle-rich quotes by heart before being able to introduce this puzzle game at any bus-stop or other space when you happen to have some idling conversation time with your kid.

If you have a Shakespeare quote that you feel makes a wonderful 9-13 year old discussion puzzle, I would love it if you could log it up here. thanks

This blog is http://ninenow.blogspot.comIncidentally do you know the only top 10s that matter to sustainability for the world's youth today? 12
Questions or answers to it can be mailed in confidence to Chris at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - subject NINENOWOthers' Nations - childrens' books be PeaceCorps writersOur Current Vote Number 1 Social Project 30000YOUR IDEA IN INTERACTION

Tip if the first idea is too big- play it back to what youngers could do with a simpler version of it

CASE:

A) Anders and his youth (Sustainability Preneurs across Sweden) peers in uni town of Vaxjo had idea of why don't all university undergraduates (who wish to) sign a pledge 1 : if we ever become famous like Vaxjo Gold Medal Olympian Carolina Kruft (Universityof Stars 12) , we will adopt a Kluft-style mission in life. Knowing your social mission in life before fame begets you is the entrepreneur's truest way to be sure of sustaining it. University towns where high percentages of students sign the Vaxjo-type pledge are the best for future undergraduate education ones for sustainability alumni and world changers networks of social entrepreneurs

Emotional Literacy 1 -there is no evidence that preparing only for competitive exams gives 9 year olds time to be self-confident, to actualise communications and deep foci of trust, love, discover

Must visit web youthventure.org - reason: anything emerging from 28 years of Bill Drayton's college of 1500 social entrepreneurs is always worth getting involved with if you care deeply

Simply speaking, the net's most revolutionary change is that every 12th grader should be accomplished at finding her best mentors through life and helping others do likewise. Find benchmark schools that achieve the 21st Century's 5th R. The 4R's are no longer complete without the 5th. Virtual life's networks are not separable from real life's conversations where cafes and open spaces provide natural opportunities to explore the changes peer-group teams want to help co-create.

In the poorest third of the world, a vital learning is women have not been given enough communal investment, and help with sustainable development of what their community groups need to plant. We can guide you through microcredit and link you to many examples in Brazil or India if you want to map that. In the rich world, a parallel problem is helping youth invest in their future. We don't yet know how to map that but help that peers of 9's, 10's, 11's,12',s, and 13's will show us in time.

Project30000 provides us with a clearing house of inspiring projects for humanity across ages- why not assume 9-13 year olds are as interested in heroines and hero of humanity's deepest networking needs as 14 to 18's or any older age group?

The rich North does not wholly or systematically prepare children for cross-cultural harmonising or being their own media, conversation space - read eg Putnam Bowling Alone or Richard Florida on which places are on upcurves or down curves. It does not question the future history - read about collaboration and green as the next red, white & blue in Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat, a book on the collaborative global futures we build or destroy currently being bought by over a million Americans; compare with these future history scripts which leaders around the North hemisphere used to value debating in 1984IFIf you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a woman, my daughter!